childhood

I visited my son for lunch at his school. He's in the first grade. I watched as his class walked down the hallway, all smiling and bopping along. Kindergarten was leaving the cafetorium (cafeteria + auditorium) and some were holding hands and again, all smiling...loving life. Boys and girls...

I was raised by largely irreligious parents who believed that the church had an important role to play in the moral development of their children, regardless of whether Christianity was an objective reality or just a collection of parables. I'm 36 now, and have all kinds of rational materialist...

Hi folks, tis my first post on this particular forum; I usually haunt religion and politics. I've a story from my childhood (some 34 years ago, this was) and while I realize memory is a tricky and often faulty thing, I sincerely feel I remember this event accurately. Maybe not. At any rate...

I ran across an interesting web site while reading one of my favorite, online comics. It is a collection of strange beliefs different people had as children. An example of the strange / odd / wonderful but debunked childhood beliefs: "When I was a nipper my older sister, by seven years, used...

In this thread Winter expresses some memories from the age of 2-3. I am just blown away. My earliest memories are from 5th grade, which means I was about 10 years old. And these are vague and I seriously doubt have much to do with reality (whatever THAT means). Do people have memories from...